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His mother Nicola was at work on the Harrowbrook Industrial Estate when she heard there was an accident and an air ambulance nearby in Coventry Road.

Ryan Mullins didn't wear his helmet because other children teased him

She said: “I found out in a really horrible way. My husband rang me at work to tell me there had been an accident and I said, ‘I hope it’s not Ryan’ and my husband said, ‘of course it isn’t.’

"I’d spoken to Ryan at 3.30pm so I rang him and he didn’t answer. Then my husband rang and said, ‘it is Ryan’ and I ran down the road and they told me it was life threatening and he might die.”

Ryan is now stable in hospital and breathing by himself.

Ryan Mullins, 13, is in an induced coma after being knocked off his bike in Hinckley last week

Nicola said: “It shows how important it is to wear a helmet. He wouldn’t wear his helmet because everybody had laughed at him when he did. He carried it in his bag instead and I think if only he had worn it.

“I’m starting a petition to make it a legal requirement to wear a helmet on a bicycle.

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“It wasn’t the driver’s fault. There were three cars parked on the pavement on Coventry Road and there just wasn’t enough space.”

A spokesperson for Leicestershire Police said: “There is no action being taken because there were no criminal offences.”

Coventry Road, Hinckley (Image: Google)

Family friends have set up a Go Fund Me page to raise money to help the family. Nicola and her husband Paul, known to his friends and family as Jock, have pledged to donate the money to Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

She said: “They saved his life and how can we ever repay that?”

The couple thanked people in Hinckley for their kindness. Nicola said: “People have been amazing. What an amazing place Hinckley is to live.”